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  Atomic Number: 32     Atomic Mass: 72.59     Number of Protons: 32     Number of Electrons: 32     Number of Neutrons: 41     Metalloid     Solid     Grayish    Carbon Family · Name Origin: From the Latin word Germania meaning Germany

Germanium was discovered in 1886 by Clemens Winkler. Germanium was an element whose existence was predicted by Mendeleev in 1871. He predicted that the then unknown element germanium should represent silicon in its properties. Germanium element as in its pure state is crystalline and brittle, retaining its texture in air at room temperature. It is the main semiconductor material. Zone-refining techniques have led to the production of crystalline germanium for semiconductor use with the purity of only one part. Certain germanium compounds have a low mammalian toxicity, but a clear activity against certain bacteria, which makes them of interest as chemotherapeutic agents. Germanium's has a high refraction and transparency to make light. Germanium is stable in air and water, and is unaffected by alkalis and acids, except nitric acid. Germanium is less abundant than either the tin or the lead which is the heavier component metals of group 14, and it is less easily accessed because geological processes have contracted only small amounts of it into minerals, so that it tends to be widely dispersed. 

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"><span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Germanium is used in some medicines and a high intake of germanium is supposed to improve the immune system, boost the body's oxygen supply, make a person feel more alive and destroy damaging free radicals. Germanium substance can irritate the eyes as well as the skin and the respiratory tract. Germanium may even cause effects on the blood as a result in lesions of blood cells. Finally and exposure may result in death. <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 22pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; msoansilanguage: EN-US; msobidilanguage: AR-SA; msofareastfontfamily: Calibri; msofareastlanguage: EN-US; msofareastthemefont: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">In addition was said to protect the user against radiation.

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